Re: ms-sys contains MBRs which are copyrighted by Microsoft

leorolla dijo [Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:23:59AM -0700]: For security reasons it could perform a checksum verification to protect the user from a corrupt or virus-infected backup file. So the simple changes in the source would be: * remove the problematic file from the source code * change

Re: ms-sys contains MBRs which are copyrighted by Microsoft

Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: leorolla dijo [Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:23:59AM -0700]: For security reasons it could perform a checksum verification to protect the user from a corrupt or virus-infected backup file. So the simple changes in the source would be: * remove the problematic

Re: ms-sys contains MBRs which are copyrighted by Microsoft

? In this case, add look for the presence of a checksum file with a given name etc; if absent, produce an error message telling the user to copy it from a trusted source etc and exit.) Don Armstrong wrote: severity 425943 serious retitle 425943 ms-sys contains MBRs which are copyrighted by Microsoft

ms-sys contains MBRs which are copyrighted by Microsoft

severity 425943 serious retitle 425943 ms-sys contains MBRs which are copyrighted by Microsoft thanks ms-sys contains verbatim copies of the master boot records of windows 2000 and windows 95B et al. While it would be valid to reimplement an MBR in such a way that it was functionally similar